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150th birthday - Austria / II. Republic of Austria 1980 - 2.50 Shilling

Designer: Pilch, Adalbert

150th birthday - Austria / II. Republic of Austria 1980 - 2.50 Shilling


Theme: Well-known people
CountryAustria / II. Republic of Austria
Issue Date1980
Face Value2.50 
Colorgreen
Printing TypeTypography
Stamp TypeCommemorative
Item TypeStamp
Chronological Issue Number979
Chronological ChapterOOS-OE2
SID397430
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The commemorative stamp, which was published by the Austrian Post on the occasion of the 150th birthday of Robert Hamerling, is intended to commemorate a poet who influenced the cultural climate of the Wilhelminian era in Austria. On March 24, 1830 Rupert Hammerling (he changed his name until the mid-19th century) was born in Kirchberg am Walde. Hammerling decided to study for a teacher and thus for the bread job of a high school teacher. In 1853 he started a job at the Akademisches Gymnasium in Graz. Two years later, he moved to Trieste, where he worked as a professor and as a cultural reporter of the local newspaper. After the great success of his epic "Ahasuerus in Rome" (1865) he returns to Graz as a freelance writer. Since 1856, he was tormented by a worsening intestinal tuberculosis, which eventually led to a pyelonephritis. He died of the disease on 13 May 1889.

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The commemorative stamp, which was published by the Austrian Post on the occasion of the 150th birthday of Robert Hamerling, is intended to commemorate a poet who influenced the cultural climate of the Wilhelminian era in Austria. On March 24, 1830 Rupert Hammerling (he changed his name until the mid-19th century) was born in Kirchberg am Walde. Hammerling decided to study for a teacher and thus for the bread job of a high school teacher. In 1853 he started a job at the Akademisches Gymnasium in Graz. Two years later, he moved to Trieste, where he worked as a professor and as a cultural reporter of the local newspaper. After the great success of his epic "Ahasuerus in Rome" (1865) he returns to Graz as a freelance writer. Since 1856, he was tormented by a worsening intestinal tuberculosis, which eventually led to a pyelonephritis. He died of the disease on 13 May 1889..